Calls for Papers
Review of International American Studies 3/1-2, 79-81 2008
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tRAnsAtlAntic encounteRs: AmeRicAn studies in tHe 21st centuRY’ to Be Held sePtemBeR 27–30, 2008 in Ł�d�, PolAnd.Ł�d�, PolAnd., PolAnd.
the conference is organized in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the establish-ment of the departestablish-ment of American studies and mass media at the university of Łódź. the conference will offer a forum for discussing issues related to American stud-. the conference will offer a forum for discussing issues related to American stud-ies as seen from the perspective of transatlantic and interdisciplinary research.
We invite proposals from individual scholars as well as groups of three to five present-ers on topics including, but not limited to:
media and society: film, radio, tv, the press, and the new media multiculturalism: approaches to and representations of
globalization, regionalization, political leadership terrorism: military and intellectual responses to national identity, migration, and representation
popular culture and its national and international contexts
interdisciplinary American studies/transatlantic studies pedagogy
Key-note speakers: emory elliot (university of california, Riverside), Alfred Hornung (university of mainz), zbigniew lewicki (Warsaw university)
deadline for the submission of title and abstract of 200–250 words and proposals for panels (350 words, including names of presenters and titles of their presentations) is may 15, 2008.
Please submit abstracts electronically or by mail to the following address: tRAns 2008
department of American studies and mass media, university of Łódź
ul. składowa 41/43, 90–127 Łódź, Poland e-mail address: trans2008@uni.lodz.pl — — — — — — —
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A selection of papers will be published by Peter lang Publishers (germany) in ‘Ameri-can studies and media’ series. general editors: elżbieta H. oleksy and Wiesław oleksy.
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modeRnitY’s modeRnisms: Hemi/sPHeRes, “RAce”, And gendeR.
We seek abstracts for essays to be included in a collection that will build on recent scholarship underscoring both the need for and possible ways in which the proj-ect of widening the borders of modernism and modernist studies may be undertak-en. Beginning with the 15th century encounter between old World and new—an in-stance of modernity commonly considered solely in terms of Western cultural devel-opment—the collection will explore how this more conventional articulation of mo-dernity is split into numerous hemispheric modernisms with global affect, and how these modernisms are often linked to each other through transnational flows of peo-ple, ideas, and things, particularly in terms of “race” and gender. Reconceiving conven-tional articulations of modernity in this way shifts the focus of interconnectedness be-tween disparate modernisms from the significance of globalization to the exploration of shared history, thus providing the ground for consideration of new World mod-ernisms while opening up new possibilities for unearthing their hidden links with the Western and non-Western modernisms of the old. modernity’s modernisms thus be-come multiple interconnected hemi/spheres, in which exist many possible relations of various modernities through history, time, and space, across axes of east and west and north and south—linked also, through the shared quest of discovery, to disparate global modernities existing prior to the 15th century modern moment of the West. understood in terms of multiple hemi/spheres, then, modernity’s modernisms sug-gest a dynamic paradigm that reconfigures conventional binaries, revealing a previ-ously hidden nexus between inside/outside, colonial/postcolonial, national/transna-tional, the West and the Rest.
We invite essays that interpret modernism in various social, cultural, historical, philo-sophical, ethnic, political and geographical registers, and which also reconsider the problem of modernity within a hemispheric frame emphasizing multiple points of view. We are particularly interested in essays that explore the shared histories of mod-ernisms across axes of east and west, north and south. in addition, we are looking for essays that interrogate the boundaries of and interrelationships between modern-ism and modernity’s neglected binaries, especially those between the West and the Rest. the following questions, which should not be taken as exhaustive, might serve as a guide:
1. What does it mean to expand the borders of modernism, and how is modernity im-plicated in this act?
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3. What is the relation between space and time in a reconfigured notion of modern-ism and modernity?
4. How might a notion of shared history inform our understandings of modernism and modernity?
5. What does it mean to consider the 15th century encounter between old World and new as a “relational”, rather than “nominal”, moment?
6. in what ways might “race” and gender be implicated in new versions of modern-ism and/or modernity?
7. How might a “hemispheric” modernism be described, and what might be its signif-icance?
8. What is the relation between “hemispheric” modernism and globalization?
9. What modern hemi/spheres might exist across axes of east and west and/or north and south, and how might recognizing them alter our understanding of modernism and modernity?
10. How might we describe the hidden nexus between inside/outside, colonial/posco-lonial, national/transnational, the West and the Rest?
Abstracts should be 1 page single-spaced, times Roman 12” font and e-mailed, along with a cv, to cyraina Johnson-Roullier and meg Harper at johnson.64@nd.edu, or mailed to 1614 n. campbell Ave. , chicago il 60647 by January 15, 2009. Authors of abstracts selected for the collection will be notified by march 1, 2009 of the deadline for final essays.
